A quiet manifesto for resisting simplification, cultivating attention, and sensing otherwise

By Obrestad / Dølheim

Complexity-sensitive artivism (manifesto, 2025-2026)

Complexity-Sensitive Artivism is both a manifesto and a method, a durational practice of resisting simplification. Treating the manifesto as an art form, a listening device rather than a megaphone, it sets out a working ethics of attention, care, and epistemic humility.

We gather artists, scientists, and communities in acts of attention through field surveys, conversations, poetry, and installations. The result is a living archive with art as infrastructure for grief, relation, and possibility.

The manifesto circulates as a printed booklet and extends into related works on paper and wood.

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Related works

resistance is not always loud (2026)
Wall-hung object. Digital print on oak-veneered MDF, ø 120 cm.

The manifesto's first line, repeated. Hundreds of overlapping phrases spiral outward from a dense centre, legibility dissolving into murmur.

Complexity-Sensitive Artivism (2026)
Booklet, 148 × 210 mm, saddle-stitched.

The manifesto in its circulating form, released to be annotated, spoken, misread productively, and returned with new edges.

Manifesto in practice, Extractions CoLab, Fensfeltet, August 2025

“Quiet does not mean passive.”

"Care is not sentimental. It is strategic."

“Don’t simplify the conflict, expand the field.”